Just when I thought we had the STS-134 launch trip under control, the good folks at NASA conferred with the Ruskies and decided the launch date needed to be slipped 10 days to accommodate a Progress supply vehicle. Bummer! The hot deal on\u00a0\u00a0Titusville hotel is gone and American Airlines gets to\u00a0squeeze a few hundred bucks in change fees out of us.<\/p>\n
End result is now we’ll be staying west of Orlando again, which is really no big deal. The plan is to leave MCO on Sunday, but if this turned out to be one of those 3-in-3 launch attempts, we’d need make another change. After the 2nd, we’re cutting into the “Launch” of Euro 2011 on the 5th of May\u00a0and in that event, I guess we’re sunk. Fingers, toes, etc. are crossed, which is about all we can do.<\/p>\n
Hadn’t planned on having to spend a bunch of time on this today. Back to the Euro 2011 charts and graphs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just when I thought we had the STS-134 launch trip under control, the good folks at NASA conferred with the Ruskies and decided the launch date needed to be slipped 10 days to accommodate a Progress supply vehicle. Bummer! The hot deal on\u00a0\u00a0Titusville hotel is gone and American Airlines gets to\u00a0squeeze a few hundred bucks …<\/p>\n